[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14831-14832]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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             AMERICANS SAY MEDIA ARE BIASED AND TOO LIBERAL

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Americans say the national media are 
biased, untrustworthy, and too liberal, according to separate polls 
released recently by Gallup and the Pew Research Center. Gallup found 
that only 1 in 10 Americans now have a great deal of trust in the 
national media. A majority say the media are biased. And by a margin of 
more than 3-1, Americans think the media are too liberal rather than 
too conservative.
  Pew found that 1 in 4 Americans think that news organizations, in 
general, get the facts straight. That's a 14 percent decrease from 4 
years ago. And almost 8 in 10 Americans say news organizations favor 
one side over the other.
  Mr. Speaker, if the media want to restore the public's trust, they 
should

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give Americans the facts, not tell them what to think.

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